doce

• dotze

From Navarro-Aragonese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doce

1. twelve

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : doce     Ordinal : decimosegundu

• dolce

From Latin duodecim.

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

• docenu

doce

1. feminine singular of dox

Galician numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal (standard): doce     Cardinal (reintegrationist): doze     Ordinal: duodécimo, décimo segundo     Ordinal abbreviation: 12º     Fractional (standard): doceavo     Fractional (reintegrationist): doze avos

• Hyphenation: do‧ce

From Old Galician-Portuguese doze, from Latin duodecim.

doce (indeclinable)

1. twelve

doce f pl (plural only)

1. (always preceded by the definite article) twelve o'clock

   Synonym: doce en punto

   Son as doce ― It's twelve o'clock.

• ducia

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”).

• dulce (proscribed)

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you use to, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offence, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise!
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it or else
     I'll get angry.

• auga doce
• herba doce

doce m (plural doces)

1. sweet (candy), confection

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doze”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doce”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doze”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doce”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “doce”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “doce”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

docē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of doceō

• doce in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Latin dulcem. Compare Sicilian duci.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈɾoːt͡ʃə]

doce

1. sweet

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1266: “una mela dolce” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• doçe

From Latin dulcem, accusative of dulcis (“sweet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.t͡se/

doce (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 278 (facsimile):

     […] que ſon mais doceſ ca mel […]

     […] which are sweeter than honey […]

• Galician: doce
• Mirandese: doce
• Portuguese: doce
  • Macanese: dóci
  • >? Papiamentu: dushi
  • Sãotomense: dochi

From Old Galician-Portuguese doce, from Latin dulcem (“sweet”). Compare Sicilian duci.

• Hyphenation: do‧ce

doce m or f (plural doces)

1. sweet
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela
     P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça
     Vejo a doce imagem d'ela
     Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window
     I see through the panes clouded by snow
     The sweet image of her
     When she passes… passes… passes…

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.

• Macanese: dóci

doce m (plural doces)

1. sweet, candy
2. (Brazil, slang) LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:doce.

• Hunsrik: Doss

• “doce”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: doce     Ordinal: duodécimo, decimosegundo, décimo segundo, doceno     Ordinal abbreviation: 12.º     Multiplier: duodécuplo     Fractional: doceavo, duodécimo
Spanish Wikipedia article on 12

Inherited from Old Spanish doze, dodze from Latin duodecim. Compare English dozen.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈdoθe/ [ˈd̪o.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.se]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oθe
• Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification: do‧ce

doce

1. twelve

• → Cebuano: dose
• → Tagalog: dose

• “doce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28